Simulation of Elastic Wave Propagation Based on Meshless Generalized Finite Difference Method with Uniform Random Nodes and Damping Boundary Condition

When the grid-based finite difference (FD) method is used for elastic wavefield forward modeling, it is inevitable that the grid divisions will be inconsistent with the actual velocity interface, resulting in problems related to the stepped grid diffraction and inaccurate travel time of reflected waves. The generalized finite difference method (GFDM), which is based on the Taylor series expansion and weighted least square fitting, solves these problems. The partial derivative of the unknown parameters in the differential equation is represented by the linear combination of the function values of adjacent nodes. In this study, the Poisson disk node generation algorithm and the centroid Voronoi node adjustment algorithm were combined to obtain an even and random node distribution. The generated nodes fit the internal boundary more accurately for model discretization, without the presence of diffracted waves caused by the stepped grid. To avoid the instability caused by the introduction of boundary conditions, a Cerjan damping boundary condition was proposed for boundary reflection processing. The test results generated by the different models showed that the generalized finite difference method can effectively solve the problems related to inaccurate travel time of reflection waves and stepped grid diffraction.